What offends me, is not that some animal must die, for me to eat, but rather that such an animal could, at any time, be severely confined, or in any other way mistreated, while it is still alive.

But I'm on a low-carb philosophy, of energy-in/energy-out. I eat mostly protein and fat. I don't naturally tend to be excessive, with fat, and gorge myself, the way I might with carbs. So the carbs need to be my main focus, in eliminating excess energy intake.

Therefore, Bambi must die! And Thumper too! Along with that pig...what was his name...Bacon?...no...Babe! Just make it swift, and merciful,...right?

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Get professional nutritionist advice, don't follow fad diets ... they don't work or they injure. But if Paleo-diet is for you, then remember to stay out of the way of the mammoth, if it is still kicking ;-)

Vegetarianism is useful, for some people (sick with certain diseases) ... any other reason, it is pseudoscientific or moralizing. I love animals ... I keep two cats that I don't plan on eating, the other animals, not so much ;-) Hitler was a vegetarian.

Diabetics diet ... three meals a day with three snacks a day. Each main meal is to be half vegetables (no corn, no beans), quarter protein, quarter carbs (corn or beans OK). Each snack to be small, made of carbs. No liquid sugar or substitute, including juice, pop, diet pop. Avoid any added sugar or corn syrup. The snacks taken mid morning, mid afternoon, and just before bed. Even out the insulin, but also eat right (for my condition).

PS - I know one guy at work who did very well on the paleo-diet ... but then maybe his genes are Stone Age ;-)

Apple is selling the new iHunger 7's already? I thought they weren't due out until May.

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Likewise. Though I do very little red meat -- out of health interests. Fowl, on the other hand, is continually at risk from my attentions.

Few things annoy me more than people who are vegetarian/vegan for political reasons. Health reasons, matters of personal choice, simple preference, no problem. The ones who are on a crusade, though, I just want to force feed a BLT, hold the LT.

My A1C is good. I got off of insulin, and lost over 40 pounds, with my self-styled low-carb philosophy(under the supervision of a physician). I've been on a statin for several years, and my cholesterol numbers have been pleasing my doctor.

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Diabetics diet ... three meals a day with three snacks a day. Each main meal is to be half vegetables (no corn, no beans), quarter protein, quarter carbs (corn or beans OK). Each snack to be small, made of carbs. No liquid sugar or substitute, including juice, pop, diet pop. Avoid any added sugar or corn syrup. The snacks taken mid morning, mid afternoon, and just before bed. Even out the insulin, but also eat right (for my condition).

Sounds miserable! I eat three egg-white/cheddar-cheese burritos, for breakfast, a small lunch, and a big hunk of meat, with a very small helping of veggies, for supper. I haven't drunk a soda since, 1995. My one and only dietary stumbling block, is beer. If I stopped drinking, I could lose the rest of my Risperdal fat, in no time at all. As it is, I am losing, but at a snail's pace.

What offends me, is not that some animal must die, for me to eat, but rather that such an animal could, at any time, be severely confined, or in any other way mistreated, while it is still alive.

But I'm on a low-carb philosophy, of energy-in/energy-out. I eat mostly protein and fat. I don't naturally tend to be excessive, with fat, and gorge myself, the way I might with carbs. So the carbs need to be my main focus, in eliminating excess energy intake.

Therefore, Bambi must die! And Thumper too! Along with that pig...what was his name...Bacon?...no...Babe! Just make it swift, and merciful,...right?

My friends son, drank a few beers with me, about a year ago. He told me about his previous time working in a pig-slaughtering plant. He said they can't kill them with a bullet, or that-piston-from-No Country for Old Men, like they do cows, because it causes a harmless-but-unattractive red speckle, on the pork steaks. So, what they do is hook up electrical cables to their ears, and zap them first(called "stunning")...then they basically hang them on a hook, and slit them open...I got the impression it was ridiculously cruel, in the name of efficiency.

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My friends son, drank a few beers with me, about a year ago. He told me about his previous time working in a pig-slaughtering plant. He said they can't kill them with a bullet, or that-piston-from-No Country for Old Men, like they do cows, because it causes a harmless-but-unattractive red speckle, on the pork steaks. So, what they do is hook up electrical cables to their ears, and zap them first(called "stunning")...then they basically hang them on a hook, and slit them open...I got the impression it was ridiculously cruel, in the name of efficiency.

This is why kosher/hallal slaughter matters. Minimizes animal cruelty (if you eat meat) ... unless of course you prefer road kill. Capitalism crapifies everything in the name of financial efficiency ... not any other kind of efficiency ... though time efficiency usually comes into that. Ultimately ... finance is opposed to marriage, children, families. Because they are not, are not ... financially efficient. Slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin is. Enjoy your chitlins.

We're natural omnivores. Having been a predator I have no problems being carnivorous.

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We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the young for a long long time."PZ Myers

We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the young for a long long time."PZ Myers